Timberline Resources Corporation announced that Mr. William M. Sheriff has resigned from the Company's Board of Directors effective April 26, 2016. Mr. Sheriff indicated that his resignation was due to the significant demands on his time from his other obligations. Mr. Leigh Freeman has been appointed to succeed Mr. Sheriff as the Chairman of Timberline's Board of Directors.

Mr. Freeman has been a director of Timberline for over three years and has over 35 years of mining industry experience in a variety of technical, managerial and executive positions with junior and senior mining and service companies, including Co-Founder of Orvana Minerals and Chief Geophysicist at Placer Dome. He is currently self-employed as a consultant and serves in leadership roles for the Society of Mining Engineers, and as an Advisor to Montana Tech, University of Arizona, and South Dakota School of Mines.